The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1899. ......... NOVEMBER 14, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. L A A EAKE, Managsr. OSSR W FUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. 8. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Eingle Coptes, B cents. Terme by Mati, Including Postage DAILY CALL (includinz Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 month: DAILY CALL (inciuding €unday Call), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month . 6o EUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Yeer T All postmasters are author Sample coples will be for! CAKLAND OFFICE..... to recetv. subscriptions. rded when roquested. vetess....908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Bullding, Chicag NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: T. C. CARLTON...... 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At lock, Tgorough- S hotos 6, at 11 Market mber 16, at 12 o'clock, ROOSEVELTISM. the St t he calls “the stre i the use of force as a life. 2 period of exhaustion rte compl divided into a ial tely 1 neither the which make 1 tio al, and this ¢ the So a wisely and care stitution of iety of vy devised i in the cour housed in llowed the procession tion ir con- beginning, gradually , and must riod of peace. The Gov- in the condition ically he n them such ., ph; iching of t rated weakening effect T'wenty e years of peace Revolu and the war of nd the Mexi- e Civil War we struggle. he ion. Be- we had in which e us the er in wealth than any development, s so prospered as to st of th it been for w but in the: upation outstepped all ve not been occupied istory an argn- Roosevelt's idea to keep the man- e up to par address to ional Congress of rnor endeavored Mothers the with the nec to impress them es of tr: He boys to fight Hiad no use for other kinds of boys. Now we believe that all American boys have in them the spirit and the force to d d their ¢ aintain their rights It is not neccssary to es teach them to fight on all occasions. The spirit w Roosevelt inculcates is one that seeks and makes con on in order to display the force wh > regards as superior to all other ¢ ties. War should be looked upon by modern’ civilization as the last resort, the final mean of promoting issues and securing just right rea brought to bear by the sober min a0 Rooseveltism puts war forward as the most ex- cellent of all things, to be sought and courted by a nation to preserve the manhood of its people. Hj idea, bronght down to the personal equation, is a re-creation of feudal conditions, in which the strong hand holds all that it can take and defend. It means a'restoration of the duel in settlement of personal dis- 1d the taking from the judicial courts their e of arbitrating and adjudicating the rights of on and property. Its ideal is found in the great { in the mountains of'Kentucky, where the Hat- fields and McCoys lead constantly the strenuous life awkich Roosevelt regards as man's ideal condition. tes Young | s | the one bears to the other, CALIFORNIA IRRIGATION. R. ELWOOD MEAD, in charge of the Irri gation Burean of the Agricultural Depart- ill attend the water storage con- in an interview for The Call has | stated the irrigation situation this State very | clearly, and has given the reason for Californi: interest in the subject. He said: - “There is no ques- [ tion as to the fact that water is worth more in Cali- fornia than in any other State in the Union.” | The value of water for irrigation is fixéd by the [ value of what it will produce. Where the climate is fa- ¢ of products of the soil, L rention in this ¢ ment, who w in great vorable to a ve: and to an almost constant succession of crops, agri- -ulture in all its branches is the most profitable and its products are the most valuable. We have these conditic The long, arid and hot .ason, which is peculiar to the whole interior of the State, from its north line to its southern border, pre- sents conditions favorable to the best use of irriga- i have even more constant use of the | adequate we wil : land than now, for the early grain harvest will per- mit the use of the land for another crop of roots, | fodder plants or other useful and valuable producrs. Where land is now in alfalfa under our all-compelling | sunshine five or six crops may be cut in a season. Where sugar beets are raised their harvest may be fol- lowed immediately by something else, and the land | may be kept in continual action. These favorable conditions, dependent on climare, are not present in the arid States whose lands lie at to make a short season, and where such an altitude as the production of more than one crop is impossible. Al of this runs back to the cost of water storage and Wi and the climaté is not friendly to distribution. ere only one crop can be raised, a at variety of of securing a water agricultural products, the ¢ suj lated by those conditions. The value of the r annum is the value of the , or.at best two, crops it will produce in a year. Here its | value is that of the many and the great variety of | crops permitted by our climate. This is a dominating | principle that should not be lost sight of by the con- H water in Calif ia produces an orange , it is that much vention | crop worth a thousand d. more Vi ble than water in Wyoming or ldaho used at an average elevation of 4000 feet, where 1tlzc short season one field crop worth { or $30 an acre on alfali lucing | six crops.in ix times as valuable as | where crop can be v | These cc ti not have generally been the in o to people. nderstood by our at may be | value of water, to curre obtaining it, re of the annual loss to the But there is anc Our output of tate St gol eeded not supply of water f hed for power 1 ig s are i me $20,000.000, Tt is true that in sn pr 000,000. areas in other mineral States water has the sar tion to mining, but nowhere else is t relation Therefore for m great re purpe California any other St the this value { added to that produced by its use in irrigati [ The fact that the demand for mo: caused a financial stringency in ney to handle the crops of the West ha | Fastern cities shows how much we need a bett banking and cur system than we have, and out of the showing g arguments can be drawn ‘to urge Congress to 1 the question this winter ‘and settle it right | A HOLIDAY SUGGESTION. | PON public of rs of the War De l partment i ting | to forward free of charge rancisco of Christm all liere prior to N lin the Philippines,. some of our raries at once pointed out to the express companies that t could make a “great hit” by boxes pr irrive vember 20 for offi to What has been the effeit express companies of the E the heard. upon As a rule express companies do not try to make that kind of a hit at the publi public purse and they count noth not touch it. The chances are that so far from carry ‘inu Christmas gifts for the men at the front | charge, they have not even con ; ax by affixing stamps on the rece | the shippers. % | Whatever may have been its.off suggestiont is a good one. It ha and wholesome Christmas cheerfulness about it, and therefore we recommend it to the attention of th Wells-Fargo Company. Between now and the 20th of the month there is ample time for a good many | Christmas presents to be sent from Pacific Coast :pnints to San Francisco to be forwarded to the sol- diers. The express company people, while scorning | to pay war taxes, are not averse to being known as | philanthropists. patriots. Their aim is at the ng a hit that do ee of nte; the war to ¢ s they give to ct in the East, the a holiday liberality Doubtless, they would also like to [be known as The number of preents sent | to Manila will not be very large, nor will their weight an opportunity for thg if not just in all things | be conside | ble. Here then | express company to show th: | it can at least be generous in some t | We repeat the suggestion of our E | with our cordial indorsement, having no doubt it will be received by the express managers in California in the same spirit with whick it was received in the East e e | The failure to obtain a representative of the Pacific | Coast on the Interstate Commerce Commission this the struggle. 1cy befora long. and we | should be prepared to make a fight for it when the | time comes. GOVERNMENT AND SYNDICATES. STERDAY there came from the East two B [ doubly important by reason ngs stern poraries, therefore, | | time should not lead us to abandon There will be another v dispatches, each important in itself, but made of the relation and both to the problem | of governmental supervision of great combinations of | capital engaged in controlling industries which affect | the welfare of the whole people. i One of these dispatches came from St. Louis and | announced the preparations which have been made by | St. Louis, Chicago and other large cities of the Mis- sissippi Valley to procure from the Interstate Com- merce Commission a regulation of freight rates which would advance the interests of those cities at the ex- pense of the rights of the States of both the Pacific and the Atlantic seaboard. The other came from New York and announced that certain large capital- ists of that city have combined with the Harriman- Gould syndicate to consolidate the leading trunk When the supply and distribufon of water are | constant | r | railway will cost much more than the sum originally soldiers | contem- | 'lmes of the United States. The scope of the plan | | is said to be not one of traffic alliance merely, b““ | the union of the lines under one ownership in a de- | | termined effort to uphold traffic rates independent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In these days of great syndicates it is not improb- able that some men more enterprising than the rest have devised the«vast combination ottlined in the New York dispatch. Railway combinations have been a common thing in American history for many years past. All the great transcontinental lines have | been built up by such consolidations of roads which were once under independent management. The new movement, therefore, when started, will be but an outgrowth of the past and a step in the natural order of development. It is not going to be easily achieved, however, and, even if now under way, a long time will | elapse before it will be accomplished. The most interesting feature of the report is that the scheme has been devised with the intention of upholding freight rates independent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. That means that while Chicago and St. Louis are seeking to gain advantage | through the officials of the Government, New York will endeavor to obtain advantage for herself by get- ting possession of the trunk lines and fixing Tates | according to her interests. Should the scheme be | carried out the conflict between the Government and | the syndicates would be openly begun, and so long as it continued the lawyer with a railway practice would have a bigger bonanza than ever will be found in the Klondike. Fortunately there is no immediate prospect of any such conflict. The Interstate Commerce Commission can be relied upon to guard the interest of all por- tions of the Union, and is not likely to be subservient to, the greed of Chicago and St. Louis. The only section likely to suffer is the Pacific Coast, and what wrong may be done us will be due to the lack of a | Pacific Coast representative on the commission to | explain the needs of the co and nphold them. L, A recent churc | | | [ | | | row in Kansas reveals the exist- | ence in that State of a set of people who call them- | selves “Truth Knowers,” and also ‘that their neigh- bors think they do not know enough about the truth to tell it even when speaking of themselves. THE SIBERIAN RAILRO@D. r DISPATCH from Berlin yesterday states that / the Prussian Minister of Finance has had a i long conierence with the Emperor concerning the efforts of Russia to raise amother loan in Ger- | many. It was added that the desire of the Russians | for a new loan is due to the discovery that the Si- berian railway will cost far more than was estimated, | and that a financial crash in Russia is feared by the financiers of Europe. The statements of the dispatch are in line with re- ports that have been in circulation for some time, but ion in Russia is That the Siberian there is reason to believe the situ not so bad as they represent it. estimated is now well known, but our Consuls in Rus- | sia have reported that the additional cost will be due | tc improvements and extensions made upon the plans | adopted for the road when it was first projected. Originally the road was designed to be hardly more an a mi It was not expected that any | would be carried on over it, and | itary railway. considerable traffi | accordingly the roadbed was not strongly built, light rails were put down and comparatively slight bridges were constructed. With the extension of the line, however, there has come a rapid increase of the com- miercial demands upon it, and it has been found neces- sary to go over nearly the whole line and strengthen it in every way. If these reports be trie the-increase in the cost of the road does not imply a loss to the but a gain. It is true the immediate of money will be larger than was ex- but eventually the profitable than it would have pected, nterprise will be more been otherwise. fears of a financial crash in Russia have th: no ndation the reported increase in the cost of the Siberian road they are not likely to be realized. It is to be borne in mind that predictions oi re heard at this time in every coun- t It has been repeatedly said that.the vast specu- lative boom in trust companies in New York will lead | to a crash in the United States. Similar predictions based on similar grounds have been heard in London, in Paris and in Berlin, jor in 3ll those great cen- ters of commercial and fina been extensive speculation in s a coming crash a cial activity there has curities of one kind or All experience shows that another. every era of prosperity has led to over-speculation, and that in turn has brought about a crash of some kind. To that extent, therefore, the predictions of coming di | aster are reasonable, but there is no apparent cause, why the crash should be feared in Russia any. mome | than elsewhere. As a matter of t there is at this time a strin- gency in financial circles everywhere. It is felt in | Europe and in New York. In no place, howewver, is it of a nature to alarm any but the pessimists who always see the gloomy side, of things and the bear specvlators whose interests incline them to exag- gerate everything which would have a tendency to cause a fall in the prices of stocks, Russia may have some difficulty in placing a large loan just at this time, but it is not likely that work will be stopped on the Siberian railroad or that the empire will be bank- rupt. e e — ery nation on carth, apparently, is aping the, | Americans. Only the other day a detachment of our {army in the Philippines captured several hundred | thousand pounds of flour, rice and salt, and rightion itop of this feat comes the announcement that the { Boers have captured a poultry-yard. There were papers that said The Call's exclusive { port of the organization of the big ship-building syn- | dicate wa$ not true, but they have now seen ‘the true |Tlight and are beginning to give their readers the | news on the subject. “Truthful” Jimmie Creelman will not be missed in South Africa as long as the facile “kaffirgram” is at the disposal of the British. For recording things | that never happened it far surpasses the yellowest journalist. i i | | | The Berlin Vossische Zeitung, discussing the trouble in the Transvaal, voices the sentiment that in | the event of intervention by any European power the | United States would aid England. Guess again! A recent cable from Major General ‘Otis contains | the announcement that Colonel Bell has taken Tar- !1ac. That's nothing. It's ten-to one that Aguinaldo’s I new baby will.soon take ipecac. | ——— 4 Indications are not wanting that the war in the | Philippines is nearing its end. At any rate Calonel | Hayes has captured Aguinaldo’s secretary and is close | on the trail of his typewriter. 5 e In casting about for good timber, out of which to make a Governor for Cuba, it is not strange that the | Fresident should select General Wood. ; ‘themselves | Implication, e ONLY PACING OSTRICH IN THE WORLD. HE most unlque steed ever attached to harness is Oliver W, of Florida, a T tion of being the first pacing ostrich ever known, but he can get up a speed that would trouble the fastest of horses, 400-pound full-blood African cs- trich. Not only has he the distinc- | Hitched to a light carriage, driven by | his keeper and manager, the big pacing ostrich may be seen daily on the road near Jacksonville, and it is doubtful if | ever a more peculiar and interesting sight | was seen. His speed is simply remark- .able, and nothing on the road can pass or even hold him, He has gone a mile in 2:02 several times, and once it is satd | went below the two-minute mark. He has already won several big match races, and | also came out st in the most unique trial of speed performed in this part | ot the country—a with a bicycle and a well-known trotter. Oliver W beat both man and horse in a one-mile sprint in tne | remarkably fast time of 2:11. UND THE CORRIDORS Jesse D. Carr, a Salinas capitalist, is a guest at the Occldental. J. W. Aikin, a well-known journalist of Selma, is a guest at the Lick. Thomas Flint Jr. is registered for a short stay at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Root of Sacramen- to are staying at the Grand. R. A. Carder, a wealthy mine owner of Butte, Mont., is at the Palace. W. E. Gilman, a wealthy mining man of Poker Bar, {s a guest at the Occiden- tal. Judge J. F. Posten has come up from his home fn Coalinga and is staying at the Lick. David Starr Jordan came up from Stan- ford yesterday and registered at the Oc- cidental. S. N. Griffith, a’ prominent attorney of Fresno, was among the recent arrivals at the Lick. George Johnston; a wealthy rancher of Pleasanton, *is registered at the Grand with his wife. J. B. Lippincott of the United States Geological Survey {s at the Occidental accompanied by his wife. James F. Hager of Nashville, Tenn., who came out to greet the returned vol- unteers, is staving at the Palace. nr. 1c BT nd, one of the leading medical men of Los Angeles, was among the arrivals of yvesterday at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. 1. S. Harvey and Mr. and Mrs. 8. Carson form a party of soclety people of Victorla, B who are at the Occldental. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Eaton have closed ARO their summer home at Redwood and are | now at the Palace, where they will re- main during the winter. Mary Stacker of Clarksville, who was selzed. with apoplexy last Sunday at the Cliff House, is much worse. She is being attended In her rooms at the Occidental. ¢ J. W. Allen, a hotel man of Portland, Or., who 1s known all over the coast for E spitable ity and for his knowledge of the things that make life worth living, is at the Occidental. He comes to the city on a short vacation and to teach our local hotel clerks ho. | to properly do the limit. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Osbourne and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson are registered at cidental, where they arrived yes- ‘Chey have been absent for over a year rights for the works of the late Robert Louis Stevencon. A pretty little home In Berkeley will be ‘their future residence, where Mr. Osbourne will continue his literary, Jabors. —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. W YORK, Nov. 13.—F. H. Wilcox of San Dicgo is at the Hoffman. Miss Dean -and Miss F. G. Dean of San sisco are at the Netherlands. Mrs. M. White, H. Nelson and F. W. T. unders of San Franclsco are at the ariboraugh. e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.—Mrs. T. H. Gresham and M. A. Wheaton, of San Francisco, are at the Ebbitt House. C. J. Titus of Sacramento is at the Shoreham. A. L. Christy of San Francisco is at the St. James. e — LANE AND JENKINS. Special Revenue Agent Thomas Will Keep His Eye Upon the Pair. Revenue Agent Thomas announced yes- terday that he would prosecute Freeman P. Lane and F. G. Jenkins whenever he shall have obtained sufficlent evidence that they are passing themselves off as at the establishment of. them to Inspect their stock of liquors, Jenkins: exhibiting upon the bosom of his sositively to Mr, Thomas that Jenkins ex- and asserted that he wore a badge with Phird street, who is in business for him- that the bogus imported cordials were Mr. Thomas has no proof that Lane persors not distinguishing But a strict watch will be kept on the revenue officers. When Lane and Jenkins presented Lemle, Levy & Co., 21 Third street, last week, Messrs. Lemle & Levy allowed they say, upon the representation of Lane that he was a special agent and upon st a badge engraved with the words internal revenuc officer.” They stated Ribited such a badge.. Jenkins denied to Mr. Thomas that he had such a badge, the words “Chronicle reporte: There is another Levy next door at self and who is not connected with the firm in any way. It was not in his place found, but in the store of Lemle, Levy & Co. : represented himself to be a special agent of the revenue department except by between ‘special agent” and specfal agent of the treasury or of the revenue. pair hereafter on that line, Mr. Thomas says. ————— MEDICOS GREET WHEELER. The President of the University Visits the Affiliated Colleges. Never, or very seldom since its affilia- tion with the University of California in 1873, has the Toland Medical School, or the Afliliated Colleges, as the institution is now known, received the honor of a visit from the president of the parent uni- versity. It has remained for President Wheeler to establish a precedent which will serve to knit the two branches of the institution closer together. At 10 o’clock yesterday morning the stu- dents of the Affillated Colleges were massed on the steps of.the main buildin to welcome their president. He nrrlveg almost to the moment and the students recelved him with songs of triumph, mak- ing the air ring with “Palms of Victory. Palms of Glory.” The president was ac- companied by Dr. d'Ancona, de: £ faculty. With d;%:ulti' he mad:nhig W!E; through the throbg of singing, cheering looking after the European copy- | | students, who as he passed the threéshold of the lecture theater gave the Cornell vell. Dr. d’Ancona presented the presi- dent in a brief speech, and when the visi- | tor came forward to address his audience the applause was deafening and contin- ued. The speaker expressed his gratifica- tion at his enthusiastic reception and said | that he regarded the medical department | a8 one of the most important branches of hope of it was centered. He went on to | say that he wa anted all the sons of Berke- v 10 regard him as their father. The president of the Associated Students of | the medical department, Willlam Har | returned thanks on behalf of the stu- dents and expressed the gratitude and | pride they felt in the president’s interest. | The distinguished visitor then went to the pharmacy ~building, where Dean of the | College of Pharmacy Searby introduced him to another mob of cheering medic: After addressing them briefly, he visited | under the guidance of Dr. Goddard, dean of the Dental School, the new building | in which this branch of the college is to | be located. pr CIiff. ~The president alighted from his carrlage to obtain a good view of “Mon- arch,””the grizzly. . He left for Berkeley late in the afternoon Dr. d’Ancona then showed the | |IRA MOSS CHARGED * WITH COUNTERFEITING | GAVE A BOGUS FIFTY-DOLLAR | | BILL. | A Soldier Tried to Pass It for Him in | Nolan’s Shoestore on Market | Street and Was Caught | and Confessed. A private soldier- of the Forty-sixth Regiment, - United States _ Volunteers, named Thomas Willlams, bought a pair of shoes in W. H. Nolan's shoe store yes- terday afternoon and tendered in pay- ment a $50 bill. Something in the appear- ance of the bill attracted the suspicion of the cashier of the establishment, and he sent {t to Cashier Burns of the United State sub-treasury, who at once pro- | nounced it a counterfeit. Willlams was detaine W prisoner said that the bill had been given to him by that Mos other soldiers and tried the counterfeit money Hazen took the soldier they succeeded in finding Mo ith him, and The pris- oner was taken to the California-street | station and afterward transferred to the City Prison and placed In the tanks sub- | to the order of the Federal autheri- Moss is about 33 years old, and has been engaged recently in selling custom-made iclnlmn and boots, shoes and hats to mustered-out soldiers. | he had been arrested once before in this | city for grand larceny, but said that h arrest was the work of spite on the part of personal enemies. 2 = WELBURN’'S CASE. | His Third Trial Will Take Place the | Latter Part of Next Week. case of the Government against ex- The | called in“the United States District Court yesterday morning for trial. United | States Attorney Coombs announced that W. L. Zoller, one of the chief witnesses for the prosecution, was absent in Central America, he being employed as purser on the steamer Acapulco. Mr. Coombs there- | upon asked for a postponement until Jauuary 2, by which time he expected the steamer to return. The Government ex- pected to substantiate by Zoller's testi- mony two of the counts in the indict- ment charging Welburn with h#ving made false vouchers to the Government, After a little delay in the court pro- ceedings Gavin McNab and Frank B Gaould, counsel for the defendant, an- nounced that they would not object to the reading ‘of the testimony of Mr.® Zoller taken on the preceding trials. The offer of the trial will be set for Thursday or Friday of next week. —_——— -ARRESTED FOR FORGERY. Jack Keefe, Drunk and Incoherent, Gets Himself Into Serious ! Trouble. Jack Keéfe, drunk and incoherent, was arrested yesterday afternoon and taken to the California-street police station on a charge of passing a forged check upon Charles Basler, a saloon-keeper ‘on the Barbary Coast. The check was on the Crocker-Woolworth National Bank and called for $275, and was indorsed “D. Keefe & Co.” It was payable to P. F. Stoddard and indorsed by him also. A statement was written on the back that the note was a forgery, that the amount had been paid and that it w: = erty of J. Keefe. T ————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A HALF OF 1830—C. B, City. A half- dollar of 1530 has a market value of from 7 cents to $l. HOPKINS seriber, City. E INSTITUTE—Sub- The Hopkins Art Institute - ART. day of each month. SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC—Read- er. City. The flag of the South African republic is composed of red, white and blue stripes on a green field. METEORS OF 1833—M. E. O., City. This department has not been able to find any record of ‘“‘the meteors of 1833 having touched the earth and caused damage.” OLD PEOPL, HOME-F. L. D, Cali- fornia. The Crocker Old People's Home is located at Plerce and Pine streets in San Francisco. Call on or address a co munication to the superintendent for i formation as to admission, rules and reg- ulations. THE MACHINE—P. A. S, City. “The machine,” as applied to politics, is a term used when a party organization falls into the hands of professional politigians who use it corruptly for their own® political or personal ends. “The machinery of a party” was first used by Aaron Burr. DIXON-ERNE—W. J. K., Marine Bar- racks, Vallejo, Cal. George Dixon and | the university—one in which much of the | esident the sights of the park and the | and Secret Service Agent Hazen | sent for and arrested the soldier. The | a man named Ira Moss, and | < had previously approached two | to get them to | He admitted that | Internal Revenue Collector Welburn was was accepted, and this morning the date | is open free to the public on the first Fri- | Frank Erne fought a ten-round match | which was_declared v, New York, | December 5, 189%; Fi rne defeated | George Dixon in a twenty-round bout, | New York, November 27, 1896. | COUNTING IN CRIB—R. T. F., City. { In the game of cribbage four fours in hand with a seven spot turned up counts | twenty-four points ank | JEFPRIES-SHARKEY—L. City. JThe fight between Jeffries and Shark | took place in the Mechanics’ Pavilion on | the-night of May 6, 1898, ! THE TRANSVAAL— | M. and C., City. The latest census of the Transvaal is that of 1896, From that the population, it ap- pears. was 45,007, males 137,947, females THE DEWEY MEDALS-W. J. B, Lewiston, Cal. For information as to the distribution " of Dewey medals on this coast address. a communication to the commandant, Mare Island Navy Yard. MINUET—H. - B.,, City. “Minuet” in English is pronounced as if written *“‘min- ' with the sound of ““u” as in “mule.” French it is ‘‘menuet,” pronounced ‘‘me-nu-e,” with the ‘¢’ sounded as ‘‘e” in A DOGS—A. B., Haywards, Cal. If you will send a self-addressed and stamped | envelope this department will send sou | the desired information about dogs, but | the information if given in this depart- ment would amount to an advertisement, |and no advertisements appear therein. arent, In _alifor- | MARRIAGE-P nla one of the male sex who is under 21 | years of age must have the consent of parents or guardian in order to ivarry. One of- 20 years of age may marry in the States of Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, | Tennessee and West Virginia without such consent. ANTI-EXPAN‘SIO) ~W. | R. F, City. There is the Anti-Imperialist League of | Chicago, George S. Boutwell sident; the Anti-Imperialists of Philadelphia, George F. Idmunds honorary president, George G. Mercer president, and the Anti- Imperial League of Boston, all having for their purpose the opposition to expansion by the United State: MUTILATING COIN—M. P., City. Coin minted in the United States or elsewhere in the possession of an individual, noth- ing to the contrary appearing, is pre- sumably his personal property and he is at liberty to do with it just whatever he | | pleases. He may melt it down, convert it |into jewelry, bury it in the ground or mutilate it as much as he sees proper in accordance with his whim o long as he does not attempt to pass such mutilated coin as current coin. A man may stamp | every piece of coin he owns, providing he keeps it for himself, but if he should at- tempt to offer such a defaced coin in pa) | ment of a debt he would be liable to pros- ecution for defacing coin. LUMINOUS PAINT- ., San Jose, l. Lumincus white paint is prepared by mixing a varnish composed of forty parts of Zanzibar or kauri-copal, melted over a charcoal e, fifteen parts of the melt being dissolved in Xty parts of French oil of turpentine and the filtered solution being mixed with twenty-five | parts of previously heated and cooled lin- seed oil, six of prepared barium sulphate, six parts of prepared calcium carbonate, twelve parts of prepared white zinc sulphide and thirty parts of lumi- ealcium sulphide, mixed in a proper 1 into an emulsion and then ground y in a color mill. By the use of colors ¢luminous paint may be red, orange, yellow, green, .blue, violet or gray. —_—————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * —_————— Yesterday’s Insolvents. C. G. Alexander, merchant, Red Bluff, $7300 75; assets, $4500. Samuel W traveling salesman, San 946 70; no assets. o It you suffer from looseness of .bowels Dr. | Siegert's Angostura Ditters will cure you. Be sure you get Dr. Siegert's. ‘Will Protect Children. es' of incorporation of the Pacific Society for the Protection of Children | were filed yesterday. The directors are: | 8. R. Wiley, H. O. Stearns, G. Schultz, H. L. Rienz, Jobn F. Uhlhorn, George H. Dannemark, J. M. Chase, William_F. ! Howe. D. Hughes, W. D. Howe and Wil- liam H. Baker. | ADVERTISEMENTS. INVEST! BUT FIRST INVESTIGATE. Then, if satisfled, put your money in TAR CANYON OIL Co. CAPITAL STOCK, $100,000. Par Value, §1 00 Per Share. Its lands are located in the celebrated Kreynhagen District, surrounded by flowing wel This comp: is a legitimate corpora- ration, founded for the purpose of pro- ducing and placing upon the market the oil that undoubtedly exists on its lands. A limited tumber of shares will be sold for development purposes. NO ASSESSMENTS, NO SALARIES, OFFICERS: JAMES A. WILSON ....President Sec. Builders' Bxchange. P. A. BERGEROT.... President Pres. Board of Education. G, R. GIBSON.... ...Secretary Sec. Central Hardware and Supply Co. W. I. BROBECK.. Treasurer Asst. City and County Attorney. Tth Floor, Crocker Building, r. 142-143. PHONE MAIN 36k